I was replying to his comment:
"If they believe the Koran, they consider us infidels."
-which if he believes, whatever, but I happen to think is a stigma. What are you arguing? I'm not sympathizing with terrorists, all I'm saying is that in a time where some 120,000 people have been killed in a natural disaster, it's not necessary to generalize a whole group who practice the same faith. Not all Muslims are terrorists , even if most terrorists happen to be Muslim.
But it's a simple truth! It's all over the Koran and all over the language and writing of Islam. Either your you're in the fold or you're not.
Now how an individual muslim might deal with a kaffir or a giaour, that's a matter with some variation. But no self-respecting follower of Islam would consider me anything but an infidel. I wouldn't want or expect him to.
But then I still think you are reading more into his remarks than is there. I didn't hear anyone say not to give aid to countries affected by the tsunami. What I read was someone pointing out the ironies. But I wasn't looking for someone to put down or, um, stigmatize.
And the suggestion, no matter how veiled, that the US is not a sacrificially giving country is nonsense and offensive. Teezle's dismissive comment about the sacrifice our country is making in Iraq as nothing but "tanks and bombs" flies in the face of reality and is an insult to our dead.
And in general, the ignorant UN thug Egeland and his running dogs (here I am PROUD to stigmatize) seem to think that giving only counts if it is imposed on the people by their government and financed by extortionate taxes. Among the free, giving is what WE do more than what we delegate to politicians and bureaucrats to do in our name eith the money they tax from us -- with taxes which lead the most vocal and pious of our liberal critics to hire accountants so that they won't pay more than they absolutely have to pay.